My eldest son finished his schooling last week by attending a prom night with all his old established friends, many of them who he will go on to college with in September, so I guess the farewell wasn't as dramatic and emotional as it might have been. All the GCSE's are now complete, many of which he is seemingly confident of passing, which is something that fills me with suspicion considering he has spent most of his revision time playing ...
Now that the football is over we can all turn our attention to the much anticipated 2012 London Olympics, an event that is yet to reach out and grab my imagination, but I know it will, and as always, there will be some event which I didn’t even know existed, where I will screaming at the TV at any sniff of team GB success. If we had a bespectacled geek fighting for the Tiddlywinks gold medal versus an American, I would be leaping around the ...
Whenever there is a penalty shoot-out during a football tournament, I will wager with you that that the pundits "back in the studio" will use the word lottery on several occasions as the cameraman homes in on managers picking the poor bastards charged with (unless they are playing England) potentially letting their nation down in front of a world wide audience (I can actually hear Alan Hansen's voice in my head as I write this). However, the ...
It would take the most ignorant and biased fan to deny that England's obligatory penalty shoot out defeat was justice served to an Italian side that after the first twenty minutes totally dominated the spirited but pretty much hopeless men in white. All over the radio this morning there were accusations of lack of spirit, not playing for the shirt and all that other nonsense that comes with every predictable exit that England suffer at the ...
I dashed home from celebrating Oakley's first win of the cricket season last night so I could watch the aristocrats of French football take on technically gifted media darlings of Spain, a game that apparently had ITV pundits Roy Keane, Jamie Carragher and Roberto Martinez purring in the studio. Quite why they insist on having a foreigner I can't understand on the panel, I just don't know, perhaps they didn't realise that Jamie Carragher would ...